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Trefeglwys , and Stoke (Suss.); of the gift of Henry II the assarts round the abbey, Walcot with its mill, Leebotwood , and Betchcott ; of the gift of the founder, William FitzAlan, the lordship of Downton , 22 a

estate on the northern and southern slopes of the Lawley and Caer Caradoc hills and, like Haughmond Abbey in neighbouring Leebotwood , 9 they were quick to realize its economic potential. Throughout its history the preceptory maintained a large demesne.

traffic. 54 The Cartway was a route into Stretton parish from Leebotwood that avoided the ShrewsburyStretton turnpike north of Gorsty Bank: it turned south a few yards west of Leebotwood church to run parallel to the drift road across the

the abbey itself, in north Shropshire , and in the pastoral areas between the Long Mynd and Leebotwood and near Bridgnorth . Around Leebotwood , for instance, where the abbey gained the nucleus of an estate 1163-70 , it quickly

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by an inquisition thereupon taken at Salop 1680, June 19, the manors of Wossaston [Wollaston ] , Smethcott, Picklescott, Weebothwood [Leebotwood ] in co. Salop and divers messuages in the town of Salop and other lands and messuages belonging to

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fair day at the latter town, cattle and assBengers were conveyed by the 4.45 train from Ludlow. Soon after leaving Leebotwood station (between which and Dorrington there is a steep decline), the latter Part of the'traik by some -means broke